“As Homo Sapiens we are born of our biological parents. As human beings we are born of the dead — of the regional ground they occupy, of the languages they inhabited, of the worlds they brought into being, of the many institutional, legal, cultural and psychological legacies that, through us, connect them to the unborn.”

"An impressive, meaningful, and often courageous chorus of voices tackling a once-taboo subject with dignity..."

-- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

"Truly gripping narratives that illuminate a hard truth about death in our culture: it is always so complicated, so much thornier than we think. ... [The] authors, and editor Lee Gutkind, deserve credit for being unsparingly honest about doctoring, about decision-making, about their own ambivalent emotions. They have a lot to teach us."